Baroness Ludford: My Lords, in rightly holding Israel to the test of compliance with the highest standards of international and humanitarian law, is it not also right to note that Israel is unique in the Middle East region as a liberal democracy under the rule of law in its openness to such scrutiny? Is it not also right that since those two reports, not only have there been updates from UNICEF, such as in 2005 noting significant positive improvements, but even the UN Human Rights Committee, which is no friend of Israel, has noted such improvement?